Post three:Library Casanatense, a cultural treasure hidden among the streets of Rome

This week for my research process i used the internet as a resource and still focused on area one which is modern and past public libraries. I found a small amount of information on modern libraries by searching with Google. A great website i found had all the names of some public libraries in Italy from this i selected the names of the libraries in Rome however their was not many and then after finding the names i wrote them down on a piece of paper and searched each one of them on Google to see if the libraries had a website most did however some could not be translated into English and i can't speak Italian so that was a major difficulty i had in assessing information. Some of the really informative website i will post in the link such as the national library of Italy and the cansantense library website.

The second topic i focused on also studying this week was past roman libraries and reviewing the information i have gained which i would like to share with you all.

Early Rome had a strong focus on learning and education so thus the upper class and middle class found that books were very precise assets. They tyred very hard to build a collection they could barge to other about, but with the accumulation of these books problem started to arise like where to keep the books so to solve this problem roman people build special areas to house the books these were the first private libraries, however the lower class had no way to assess the information providing in these books as the did not have the means or funds to purchase books. Julius cesure the emperor at that time saw this problem and to ratify it asked his friend to create a collection of books for him and archtics to build a building to house these books which would be for the public to view however he was murder before this could happen so the first public libraries was not build until later on by Asinius Pollio his library collection had both Greek and Latin books and that's how public libraries came to be in Rome.

Modern public library information:  http://www.aboutroma.com/libraries-in-rome.html

Roman public libraries: http://jerryfielden.net/essays/privatelibs.htm